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The Hunt for Red Menace: - 12

A New Generation of Witch-hunters

All peripheral political movements reach a point in their growth towards
mainstream respectability and influence where they face the issues of
broadening their base and perpetuating their ideas through some form
of institutionalization. Signs of the maturization and mainstreaming
of a marginal political movment include its ability to work in coalition
with other groups, its ability to network its leaders and its constituency,
its ability to recruit new converts, and its ability to train a new generation
of leaders. The success of the New Right in institutionalizing itself
and broadening its appeal are well-documented, however the more reactionary
and nativist elements of counter-subversion within the New Right also
appear to have been successful in establishing more permanent structures
to further legitimize their worldview, and in reaching out to a broader
audience.

One way to demonstrate the networking ability of the counter- subversion
movement is to chronicle the career of one young recruit, J. Michael
Waller, from the perspective of cooperation with other groups and individuals
in the paranoid nativist counter-subversion profession.

J. Michael Waller and the New Kids Network

J. Michael Waller is one example of the successful youth recruitment
campaign mounted by the aging ultra-conservative counter- subversion
network to train a new generation to carry on the anti-communist witch-hunt.
Waller comes out of a group of right- wing former campus journalists
whose campus newspapers received funds from conservatives seeking to
influence campus politics and recruit new blood into the conservative
political movement. The funds often are coordinated through the Institute
for Educational Affairs (IEA) (now merged into the Madison Foundation).
IEA and the Young America's Foundation helped financed a Waller trip
to Central America where he travelled with the Contras.

An early Waller article on CISPES was prepared in 1983 for both the
right-wing IEA-funded campus newspaper The Sequent (11/9/83) at George
Washington University, and in a differing format for the United Students
of America Foundation (11/7/83). At the time, the United Students of
America Foundation (USAF) was housed at the Heritage Foundation building. "CISPES:
A Guerrilla Support group," was the title of the piece Waller wrote
as Editor-in-Chief of The Sequent, while "CISPES: A Guerrilla Propaganda
Network," titled the USAF report which listed Waller as Director
of Research for USAF.

In February 1984 Waller revised and expanded his CISPES attack for L.
Francis Bouchey's Council on Inter-American Security (CIS). The CIS senior
researcher, according to CIS fundraising pitches, was Waller.

Waller's report on CISPES for CIS experienced rhetoric escalation and
was titled "CISPES: A Terrorist Propaganda Network." The February
1984 Waller report on CISPES for CIS was circulated just prior to a series
of anti-Administration demonstrations during "Central America Week" in
March of 1984. A few days after the demonstrations were over, CIS issued
a press release calling for then Attorney General William French Smith
to investigate CISPES, with CIS president Bouchey charging that CISPES
was "operating in contravention of the Foreign Agents Registration
Act." The press release went on to say that CIS "has offered
its assistance and the documentation that it has compiled on CISPES's
activities, including a detailed report by J. Michael Waller, to the
Attorney General's Office."

Later in 1984 Waller re-wrote his article for the new Students for a
Better America (SBA), which supplanted USAF as a conservative youth group
and was still located at the Heritage building. The SBA version of the
Waller report was titled "CISPES: A Terrorist Propaganda Network." A
brochure summarizing the report was also issued by SBA which distributed
copies of a newsletter, Freedom Fighter, published by a group called
Coalition for Democracy in Central America (CODECA).

In 1985 Waller joined with Allan C. Brownfeld, in authoring The Revolution
Lobby<M>, published jointly by the Council for Inter- American
Security and the Inter-American Security Education Institute. The 175
paperback provides backround reports on groups such as CISPES, the North
American Congress on Latin America, the Institute for Policy Studies,
the Washington Office on Latin America, and the Council on Hemispheric
Afairs. The book is but one of many examples of a project which showed
the interlocking nature of the conservative counter-subversion network.

In his biographical note for The Revolution Lobby<M>, Brownfeld
is listed as a former "member of the staff of the U.S. Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee" and "author of that committee's 250-page
study of the `New Left'. . . .A former lecturer at the
U.S. Air Force Special Operations School in Elgin, Florida" and "a
consultant to members of the U.S. Congress and the Vice President of
the United States. At the time of publication Brownfeld was associate
editor of the right-wing Accuracy in Media's AIM Report<M> and
associate editor of the The Lincoln Review,<M> published by the
conservative Lincoln Institute for Education & Research. Supreme
Court Justice Clarence Thomas served on the editorial advisory board
of the The Lincoln Review.<M>

Waller is listed in The Revolution Lobby<M>, as having been elected
National Secretary of Young Americans for Freedom in August 1985 as well
as being editor of the CIS newsletter West Watch<M>. The previous
year Waller was listed as being on the CODECA board of directors as research
director of SBA. He served on the CODECA board along with Mike Boos,
Young America's Foundation, William Pascoe, III, Research Fellow, Council
for Inter- American Security, and Gustavo Marin, Chairman, Abdala Cuban
Youth Movement. CODECA was a member of the Reagan Administration's United
States International Youth Year Commission which represented the U.S.
at the U.N. International Youth Year Commission for 1985. <$!expand
section on government ties re: Waller, YAF, etc.><M>

Waller and Boos have long-standing ties to Young Americans for Freedom,
which is the major route for youth recruitment by ultra- conservatives.
They both contributed articles to the "Winter 1982-83" edition
of YAF's magazine, New Guard<M>."

Boos, listed as YAF Projects Director, penned an article which was headlined "The
Nuclear Freeze Fairy Tale: Communist Front Groups Behind the Peace Movement," and
warned that the "peace movement" is in fact not spontaneous
but "Rather, it is a well conceived and thus far successfully implemented
sinister scheme being directed by the Soviet Union through its front
groups in the U.S. and abroad." Boos noted that: "a good source
of this information. . .is The War Called Peace<M>, published
by Western Goals."

Waller, listed as "Chairman, District of Columbia YAF," wrote
a piece called "Bare-fisted Journalism: How and Why a YAF Activist
Started an Alternative Campus Newspaper" which praises the new wave
of conservative campus publications and warns that:

=== "Today, a new generation of anti-family, anti- religion,
anti-capitalist, anti-defense, anti-American activists dominates nearly
every university. they are the little brothers, sisters, and cousins
of the long-haired, flea-ridden Tom Hayden groupies who, like their
bellwethers of the 1960's, want to destroy America, again, in the name
of `peace, jobs, and justice.'

Young Americans for Freedom, American Conservative Union, Human Events<M>,
and National Review<M> co-sponsored the Tenth Annual Conservative
Political Action Conference in 1983 where YAF members could rub shoulders
with "Ronald Reagan, members of his Cabinet, Jesse Helms, Orrin
Hatch, Jack Kemp and a host of other conservative leaders. . . ."

Other nativist recruitment avenues includes those aimed at the college
intern. One such group is the National Journalism Center of the Education & Research
Institute. The Center brings college students to Washington, D.C. for
seminars lead by conservative luminaries and then places them with a
wide range of journalistic enterprises such as National Geographic<M>,
Voice of America and UPI, and more conservative outlets such
as Human Events<M>, Reader's Digest, The World and I, American
Spectator<M>, and Campus Report <M>(Accuracy in
Academia). Alumni of the Center have gone on to positions at the Council
for Inter-American Security, Heritage Foundation, Center for Strategic
and International Studies, Accuracy in Media, Reader's Digest, Mid-American
Institute for Public Policy, Hoover Institution, Washington Times,
The World and I, and Human Events<M>.

One former Washington Journalism Center intern, Scott Powell (Summer
1981), wrote Covert Cadre,<M> a purported expose of the Institute
for Policy Studies which alleged the progressive think tank is the nexus
for KGB operatives and Soviet disinformation campaigns in the U.S.

Modern Paranoid Conspiracy Constituencies

General John "Jack" Singlaub gained national attention when
he testified before the joint Congressional committee investigating Iran-Contragate
on his role in Contra fundraising. That Committee never pursued Singlaub's
ties to the World Anti-Communist League, which networks not only anti-communists
but racists, anti-Semites, fascists and even a handful of aging Nazi
collaborators.

Singlaub has been a representative of, and works closely with, the American
Security Council, the major pro-military lobbying group in the U.S. and
one of the chief lobby groups for Contra aid. ASC started life as a blacklist-style
agency retained by manufacturers to screen potential industrial employees
for communist or subversive pasts-such as a preference for labor unions.

Singlaub is also on the Advisory Board of the Council for Inter- American
Security, the group that brags about how it infiltrates meetings of "leftists" to
spy on activists. Another CIS Board member is columnist Patrick J. Buchanan,
who played the role of the pit bull terrier for the Reagan Administration.
Other CIS Board members include Congressmen and Senators such as Sen.
Jack Kemp, Rep. Bill Chappell, Sen. Malcolm Wallop, and Rep. Vin Weber.

Singlaub, who served on the board of the now-defunct Western Goals Foundation,
is a classic example of how counter-subversion nativists with close government
ties work to influence government policy with paranoid conspiracy theories
and authoritarian solutions. That Singlaub is the quitessential counter-subversion
nativist can be shown through his own words. For instance Singlaub signed
one CIS fundraising letter where he warned:

=== "Ultraliberals want you to believe that Communist Russia
wants peace. . . .Ultraliberals want you to believe
that the big bosses of the Kremlin are people `just like you and me'. . . .ultraliberals
support permanent nuclear superiority by Soviet Communists.

Those, like Singlaub, who filter their anti-communism through a paranoid
world view firmly believe in the existence of the global red menace;
an immense and secret international communist conspiracy the dimensions
of which are so horrific that the United States of America is on the
verge of collapse because its very foundations are riddled with the rot
of communist subversion while the country itself is geographically surrounded
by hordes of mindless commie zombies brainwashed through endless Leninist
lectures to have no regard for human life. If you don't think anyone
seriously believes this wolrdview, you didn't see the movie "Red
Dawn".

That this paranoid anti-communist premise is actually believed by a
small but significant segment of American society is illustrated by reviewing
the invitational brochure for an ultra-conservative investment planning
seminar scheduled for September 25-28, 1985 at the Los Angeles Airport
Hyatt. The slick multi-color flyer announced: "Gary North Presents:
Racing to the Year 2000-Planning for personal stability in the midst
of change." Sounds normal enough until you scan the following lecture
topics as printed in the brochure: · General John Singlaub, Chairman
of the United States Council for World Freedom (the General Jimmy Carter
axed): "How and Where World War III Will Be Fought." The ignored
military reality that will shape America's future-information that will
affect your future plans, profits, and personal safety. · Antony
Sutton, Editor of The Phoenix Letter: "Soviet Technology: Made in
the USA." How by reducing government expenditures, we can cripple
the Soviet Union without firing a shot-and who is seeing to it that we
don't do it. · Jack Wheeler, Foreign Policy Consultant: "The
Soft Underbelly of the Soviet Empire and Who's Punching It." An
insider's view of the eight anti-Soviet guerrilla wars going on right
now and whether or not you can bet on the Soviet Union crumbling.